To see your model version open  > About This Mac > System Report > Model Identifier e.g. Delete the Pre part from the key USBBootSupportedModels and add your Mac model.Add Read & Write access to Administrators on the folder Contents and the file ist.Go to Applications > Utilities > Boot Camp Assistant and right click to Show Package Contents.To convince Boot Camp Assistant that you are grown enough to use ISO images, follow these steps: If your screen doesn't look like this, you have to do some ninja stuff. The first menu point should be “Create a Windows 7 or later version install disk”.

Then you need to start Boot Camp Assistant: Make a bootable USB flash driveįirst you need a USB flash drive of 8 GB or more. Update : Added instructions how to disable SIP on macOS El Capitan and later. Use at your own discretion and do backups etc. Of course beware that this is not an offical Apple support guide.

Since the optical SuperDrive in my Mac recently quit on me (and because USB is much better), this has lead me around the murky corners of message boards in search for a solution, which I now share with you here. For some reason Apple does not allow Macs with a SuperDrive to make a bootable USB stick with Windows from an image. If you have an older Mac (2010-2012), you might have some trouble using Boot Camp in MacOS X Yosemite. Intel Macs have always been able to run Windows in parallel, and it's is even officially supported by Apple by the grace of Boot Camp, which makes a partition and boot disc for you with the necessary drivers. Article by Ole Michelsen posted on J, updated January 7, 2017

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